Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jul 1999 10:15:39 -0400 | From | Brendan Cully <> | Subject | Re: New kernel/resource.c |
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On Friday, 16 July 1999 at 22:56, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The naming I don't have all that strong an opinion of, except that it > should be specific enough. "PCI" may be _too_ specific, certainly the > feedback from people seems to imply that some people really hate that > part. But "bus" is not specific at all. Somebody suggested "ioport" and > "iomem", and that may be the way to go. I'd almost like a "pc" there too, > just to clarify that we're really talking about a PC-like IO region, not > about any random IO region.
Purely cosmetic, but I prefer the names "mmio_resource" and "portio_resource" (the latter just for symmetry). MMIO I recognise, but "iomem" makes me pause and harbour vague misgivings about what it does...
-- Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
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